ANAC Chairman and Sec. General Leads ANAC Contigent to Diaspora Day in ABUJA, NIGERIA

The Chairman of All Nigerian American Congress, Dan E. Austin M.D of the Maryland, Washington DC and Virginia tristate area chapters and the Secretary General of the Illinois  State chapter Abdulateef Kareem M.D and member of ANAC Diaspora liason team Salisu Abdullahi of Connecticut led the ANAC team to the Diaspora Day organized as a show case of Nigerian development under the administration of Olusegun Obasanjo and to invite the Nigerians in diaspora and the Nigerian business communities in the diaspora to participate in the development of the emerging new Nigerian economy of 2006. The Chairman of ANAC indeed represented the interest of ANAC to the delight of the Foreign Minister Ms Ngozi Iweala, who noted the excellence of the ANAC and its Chairman and the position of ANAC as regards participation in Nigerian development. The five day event was directed by Joe Keshi of Nigerian Volunteer Services, who also coordinates the Nigerian Diaspora Organization. The call to ANAC and diasporan Nigerians to lead the way in Technological transfers, inventions, business investment  and reversal of the "so Called Brain drain" was repeated by the President Federal Republic of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo who gave the opening remarks to the delight of the diaspora group. As we attend the Nigerian Diaspora Day in Abuja, it is evident that as a people of Nigeria we in the diaspora are moving forward and All Nigerian America Congress is at the cutting edge of the development.

In a remark at the reception of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, her excellency Ms Ngozi Iweala, at Transcorp Hilton, Nikkon in Abuja, Nigeria, the Chairman, of All Nigerian American Congress, Dr. Dan E. Austin of the Washington/Maryland/Virginia Area Chapters presented the issues of our representation and direct involvement in voting, economic development of Nigeria, indeed the same message was echoed by his counterpart Chairman Ola Kassim of NIDO, Americas and the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria repeated that the committment to the Nigerian Diaspora partnership in the development of Nigeria is here to stay.

ANAC Executive Director's office
Abuja, Nigeria

Please we need to conitnue the support. Lets come out to Atlanta,
Gerogia and build on this momentum. We in ANAC are the hope that spuns
the engine of the Nigerian Diaspora.

ANAC CONGRESSIONAL SESSION, ATLANTA, 2006.